Al Gore: Moment of Decision

It's become rather de rigueur to label Al Gore as an alarmist, and to therefore pay little or no attention to what he has to say. This is just plain stupid, because Gore has done his homework, and the dangers of continuing our headlong rush to destruction are very real.

2 Quips from his current article in HuffPo:

As long as we continue to allow our economy to remain shackled to the OPEC rollercoaster of rising and falling oil prices, our jobs and our way of life will remain at risk.

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We're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that's got to change.